Lady Gaga has revealed that she was raped as a teenager and said that it took her years of therapy to acknowledge and start to recover from the trauma. “I don’t want to be defined by it,” the pop star said. “I’ll be...

As protests continued in New York City following a grand jury’s decision not to indict a local police officer in connection with the death of Eric Garner, part of the discussion on Twitter regarding police violence and race came to light...

After the Staten Island grand jury returning a bill of “shit happens, whaddya gonna do,” in the Eric Garner case today, for a fleeting moment in time –practically a synapse — conservatives joined together with people who...

Sexual assaults reported by U.S. military troops rose 8 percent in 2014 amid signs that victims are increasingly confident about reporting the attacks, defense officials said on Wednesday ahead of the formal release of the annual figures....

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton on Wednesday called for a protest march in Washington following a New York grand jury decision not to indict a white policeman in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. “We have no confidence in...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday the Justice Department was launching a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after New York police put him in a chokehold. Earlier on...

On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner. Pantaleo had used a chokehold — contrary to NYPD regulations –while attempting to arrest Garner for...

A 30-year-old Pennsylvania man could face a federal investigation after being called out on video for impersonating an Army veteran, WCAU-TV reported. The footage of the encounter has reportedly amassed more than 2.8 million views online since...

The family of Eric Garner is scheduled to issue a statement on Wednesday night regarding a grand jury’s decision not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with his death. The grand jury’s decision...

A grand jury’s decision not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with the death of Eric Garner sparked a new round protests in the city on Wednesday. The latest demonstrations come in the wake of several...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a federal investigation into the death of a Staten Island man who died when police put him in a chokehold, and urged New Yorkers to react peacefully to a grand jury’s decision not to...

UPDATE: CHRIS HARRIS HAS RESIGNED. SEE UPDATE BELOW A Texas school official got himself into some hot water this week over a Facebook posting that celebrated the KKK. Hooks Independent School District board member Chris Harris apologized for...

While a Staten Island grand jury decided on Wednesday not to indict the New York City police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner, prosecutors were able to secure an indictment against the man who filmed the fatal encounter. As the...

Out of the smoking wreckage of a built-to-fail half-hearted request for a grand jury indictment and the resulting street protests that laid waste to Ferguson, Missouri, we are once again having a ‘conversation’ about race in America....

A lawyer representing the family of an African-American mentally ill man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in Milwaukee said this week that the autopsy report had called the shooting into question. Earlier this year, then-Officer...